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I. VAN SLYKE, Editor and Piitltohar. EcHENBY, ILLINOIS. ILLINOIS ISFW& color of de handle eber made any differ­ ence, an* it was mostly de same whether de weepin* was car'd in de boot-leg or de pocket. For one, I have foun' all | sicli fings uncalled far. If I am tackle# j on my way home an' can't make de man I believe dat I am not de pusson he am i lookin' fur, I sot down upon liim wid all | iny might. In two taunts' time he am j either used up or I am on rav way home j at de rate oi sixty miles an honr, an*J What It Is That Is Involved ia tb& Noisy Partisan Glamor for* ~ a Change. n xt year by a new issue of greenback*, are now pending in Congress, ana are zealously supported by many Democrats. In Indiana, Ohio and other Western States, the Demo­ cratic party is striving to convince voters that it is more heartily devoted to this plan of pay­ ment than the Greenback party itself. If 'it for no better reason than to tear down a bank­ ing system which has served the country so ad­ mirably. Nor is it possible to estimate the loss and suffering of individuals and the stagnation of industrial enterprises which such, a change would involve. J Who can tell how much th#^Demooratie should succeed at ftli in the coming election, it party, if it had the power, would impair the °*n succeed only b\ the votes of HHHI who are ! jmblic credit by cutting down tlie revenue ? Hi at party has manifestly, alike by its part TWBNTT-SEVKN thieves recently i«- from the Jerseyville calaboose. §A BOOT and shoe factory, to employ i dar am no cuts to bind up an' no scarf >0 bauds, will be started ih Elgin this j to gin me away. --Detroit Free I'rcv* inter. * I -- * 1 CARBOSBAUE, wljich prohibits the Bale t " intoxicants, has added cider to the ; . #st of proscribed drinks. t ' * *# A FARMER near Tamaroa, Perry county, 2 jiprinkled strychnine on the carcass of a <4cad sheep, and next morning found a Head wolf. THE death of a mem in Bloomingtou, last week, is attributed to the use of to­ bacco. He complained that the smell j$nd taste were with him and sickening ftim all the time. ELGIN is having a real-estate boom. Between 100 and 300 Residences have been erected there within eighteen months, fourteen stores are going up, and transfers are numerous. AT Liverdale, near Jerseyville, a man named Munday overtook a young couple in a corn-field, and undertook to per­ suade, the girl to leave her companion. Fai'ing in this, he shot and killed his rival, and then fled the country. WILLIAM ECKERT'S elevator, at Meri- den, was destroyed by fire the other night, with between .12,000 and 14,000 'bushels of grain, mostly owned by farmers, and but very partially insured. Loss of elevator, $3,200; insured for $2,300. Tllte origin of the tire is un­ known. OVER 12,000 tickets from Springfield to Chicago, good until used, were sold in Springfield by the Wabash Railroad Company, in the first two days of the fight last w eek. Orders by telegraph from neighboring towns called for at least 10,000 more, but were not supplied, the rule requiring personal application The iMfvitable Disaster Tfcftt Result from Any Snccemfat Attack on Public . _ Credit. Makes Three Speeches W ©ne Evening. • % X , ? • N E W Y O R K , Oct. 22. ' In HWB Academy of Music at Jersey City, last night, at a mass-meeting un­ der the auspices of the Boys in Blue, Gen. Grant entered, and the cordial l ^ ^ ̂ ever uKcrcd fromtheprew. welcome winch he received .interrupted , Itiaeutincd .<Tbe Political 8ituation ^ a iMtress of the Substantial Business • of Near York City to the People. Ibe JVorA American IIRWH for November contains one of the strongest political docu- led to expect the passage of such a measure as the price of their supjiort. Nor hat; Gen. Hancock uttered a word, since his approval of the plat­ form of 1868, to indicate that he would hesitate now to carry out the linanoiid measures to which he then committed himself. On the contrarv within the pant month the Democratic party has been rejoicing at its supposed success in electing a Greenback candidate in Maine, whose nationnl plntform declares. AK lie does, that "the bonds of the United States should not b© refunded, but paid as rapidly as possi- acts and by its open declarations, a fixed pur­ ine to change the revenue system, and not for the better. Already it has thrown many obsta­ cles in the way of the collection of the tax on whisky, until the people in some Southern dis­ tricts have come to expect a total abolition of the tax as a result of the election of Gen. Han- cook. Alrondy it has tnuelit producer** of to­ bacco the false idea that tlie tax upon the iiian- nfiu-tured products falls upon the grower and not upon the consumer, so that a sectional agi- locratic party." May I auk yon if yon used these words, and, if yon did so, did yon mean to connect me directly or indirectly with what wns known as the Kuklnx Klan ? llequesting an early reply, addressed to the care of Augus­ tus Bckeil, Esq., Xew York, I am, very rcwucct- fully, your obedient servant, WADB HAMPTON. VTA-SHISOTOS, Sept. 21, 1880. •'he Hon. Wade Hampton, care Augustus Bchell, Esq., New York: % SIB : Your note of the 17th inst. is received, in which von inquire whether, at the conference held by the National Republican Committee, at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York. I used lan­ guage attributed to me as follows : "And now you are asked to surreuder all von liave done which yon hav* Jnat come your n« have (Mfe biwy again. I especially welcome the airaen of the Fifty-first Regiment who may happen to bo Ffi here, and thank yon all, gentlemen, for the compliment of your visit ami for the good atwa yon bring. I do not prize that w*m half »o much for its personal relations to yon and to ' me as I do became it is a revival of the spirit f of "76, the spirit of Abraham Lincoln; it to tbe[. 't-r spirit of nnivcrml liberty and the spirit of jini,' ; equal law all over this land, that given yonr S* . news its great significance. Gentlemen, I thank you again, and shall be - • « glad to take you by the hand. ij When Gen. Garfield had eoncluded • 1 the visitors spent an hour or so In being g - introduced all around, and, after thi« T into the hands of Wade-Hampton and the Kn-j was over, they ftffftin formed in !ln< M»v snit H.n Sit tin uumun.f {.» «•!.««. I - I . . » . .- . " . - ble," by means of an increased issue of legal- j tation for the repeal of that tax is in progress, tender notes. And this candidate, standing the gentleman then speaking. Gen, Grant was at once presented to the peo­ ple, and spoke as follows : LADIES Asn GENTLEMEN : I believe when I came in yon were listening to a very good speech, full of advice to the people at- tliis time, and 1 suppose it was a political speech you were hearing. I hope so, and thai you Financial Standpoint," and is signed by the names of twenty-two of the foremost business men of the country--men who stand for all that is stable and thorough in commercial life --all of them millionaires, and the most of them made so bv their own >*• efforts. Their were hearing ^ood reasons why the Republican „ views important, first, because they are party should lie successful at' the approach ing election. I have l>een traveling around a little, not making speeches, beeanse I cannot make one. but 1 have heard some. I have seen the people, and 1 think I can give the peop'e of. New Jersey a full assurance that tlie Republi­ can ticket at the approaching election is going to have the voice of the solid North, incluiing New Jersey. It used to be a common saying some vears ago that New Jersey was not in the United States, that it was a foreign land; but since that she has redeemed her­ self on several occasions and she is going tc prove again, on the 2d of November, that she is in the Union. I would not sav anything if I could help it that should be offensive to any Democrat who might be present. I like Demo- j crats. Some of my bent friends are among the Democrats ; but then I think for a time they should be satisfied w^rfli letting the Republican party run this Government, at least until they can "give better as Aura noes than any they have given that they woftM run it in the same way, for the interests of aM classes and aH sections. During the Democratra^war that we had, from 1861 to 1865, I always contended then that the rebels, all of whom were Democrats, were just as much interested in their defeat as we were interested in defeating them. I believe that I at the ticket office. In the same two i was right then. I believe it was the interest days the Alton railroad sold 2,000 tick­ ets to Chicago, at $1.50, limited to one or two days. THE Hou. George Scroggs, of Cham­ paign, died lately at Denver, Col., at the age of 38 years. Mr. Scroggs was the editor and proprietor of the Cham­ paign Gazette, and in the conduct of that journal showed marked ability and vigor. He had gained considerable prominence in politics, haviug served in the Legislature with credit, and in 1876 was a formidable but unsuccessful can- <lidat<i before the Republican State Con­ vention for the nomination of Secretary of State. He was subsequently appoint­ ed by President Hayes as Consul to Hamburg, but was forced by ill health to resign that position and return to America. of every foot of territory and even- person oc­ cupying every foot of territory in this glorious Union that the Rebellion should be put down, and that we shou'd rem-in one ana a united people ; and I believe to-day that every Demo­ crat who is interested in this Government is as much interested in their defeat on the 2d of November as Republicans are interested in de­ feating them. In other words, I believe m the greatest good to the greatest number, and that that good comes from our success. I hope that this audience, ladies and all, unite with me in that sentiment, and that the speaker whom I have interrupted by coming in at this late hour will convince you all of it before he gets through. I am" very much obliged to you for your cardial welcome. Mr. Timmerman, who had been inter­ rupted, didnotatonceresumeliis speech, and Gen. Grant came forward and said: LABI EH AND GENTLEMEN : I have been re­ quested to serve as President. This is my third term. Up in Connecticut this afternoon was the second. I was also President of a po- A_,. litical meeting at Warren, Ohio. That was the ^DISASTROUS conflagration^ occurred flr8t time j bwa8 ever President of a political tneetiug. Gen. Grant introduced Prof. Adams, at Wyoming, Stark county, one morn ing last week, resulting in the total de­ struction of niuc of the leading busi­ ness houses. About 10 o'clock smoke was seen issuing from the store building occupied by Mr, Stone as a clothing store, and ths alarm was at once sound­ ed ; but, owing to tlie strong wind which was blowing at the time, the whole block was burned up despite the exertions of the fire department. The building is located in what is known as the New or Wet4 Town, and was in about the cen­ ter of a block of niue frome store rooms, all of which fell victims to the fire liend. The wiud was blowing a perfect gale at the time, and in an hour the entire block wns reduced to a heap of smoking ruins. The stores were occupied and owned as follows : Building owned by W. J. Bond, and occupied by Mc- ! Corkle Brothers as a harness store, j Their stock was almost wholly saved, j One owned and occupied by Mr. A. C. : -Bedding, furniture dealer, was slightly | -damaged. One owned by A. J. Sheets, who sung two campaign songs. Mr. Timmerman then finished his re­ marks, and Gen. Grant said : LADIES AND GENTLEMEN : The next speaker whom you are to hear this evening is a gentle­ man from Ohio, who will tell you, I have no doubt, how Ohio preventer! the importation of Democratic voters lrom Kentucky, Pennsylva­ nia, and New York, and thereby we had a great Republican victory in that State. It may be that you will tvant to apply the same tuctics in New Jersey that they did in Ohio to prevent an overplus of Democratic votes from coming in lure, and to assure the great Hudson connty vietory and the New Jersey victory that yon ex­ pect. The General then presented Gen. Bishop, of Ohio, who spoke briefly. Gen. Grant meanwhile recigued the Chairmanship of the meeting to Gen. Ramsey, and drove to the Henderson Street Tabernacle, where he addressed those assembled there as follows : LADIES AND GENTLEMEN : I will do nothing more than thank you for tho cordiiriity of your reception. I have been attending political meetings ail afternoon and evening. I pre- in which a restaurant was run by Mr. "i<}!xV\yer„.a u S.,.A„nifi'r!?.' 5 L'..?!"VW^ Fargo, was a total loss, save a small quaii tity of stock. Then came the build­ ing occupied by Lypers Bros, as a gro­ cery and drug store. Tho gentlemen carried at this time about $2,000 worth of stock* a large portion of which was saved. Next a building owned by John Green, occupied by Mr. Booth as a restaurant. There was some insurance on tlie building. Holgate occupied and owned the corner building. It was the Bank of North Wyoming, and had Mr. Holgate not saved his papers from the safe it would have been a verv serious loss indeed. As it c«lled upon to make a speech at a meeting in Jersey City this evening. I astonished myself by talking live minutes, and I never thought of doing such a thing when I got up. I went so far as to give what I believed a reason why New Jersey should join the whole North, and wliv the Democratic party would tind it just as much to their interest 'to be beaten by us as we will find it to our interest to beat them. The Republican party never asks anything for itself which it does not grant to others. If we have three to one in a precinct, we do not forbid the ballot to the fourth man, but we allow him to come up and vote just as he pleases, and we count the vote just as he easts it. Now all we ask for our carpet-baggers, the colored race, and alt others, is that they shall be allowed to vote, and not be turned out of their homes or ostracised. That is all we was he oidy loi>es in the neighborhood ' ask. If Democrats beat us on this issue, we are of $1,000. There was very little insur­ ance on any of the buildings, and the loss will be an almost total one for the piopt rtv-owners. It is a difficult mat­ ter to estimate the damage done, but it is supposed that it will Amount to be­ tween $40,000 and $50,000 on building and stock. There were cribs with 20,- 000 bushels of corn stored therein, and voJual le' lumber-yards immediately j(ciV>f-K from the burning buildings, but thiiongh the exertions rf the people they were saved. The men, women and chil­ dren worked as some of them probably never worked before, and by their stren­ uous efforts the balance of the town was saved. The goods that were scattered willing to accept the beating. The beauty of such a system as we have is, if a bad Govern­ ment gets into power, it can be changed at the next election; but, if the shot-gun |K>licv is adopted, a bad Government may be pcrjjetuated in the South forever; and, as all intelligent cit­ izens desire to retain the power of excluding evil Governments, that is wliv New Jersey is going to follow suit of all Northern States. Lofly Towers. The crown of William Penu's hat. which is to adom his thirty-six foot statue surmounting the lofty tower of the new Philadelphia public buildings, will bo just 535 feet from the pavement. This wise: and, second, because they are at the financial center--the heart of the commercial i world, where every pulse beat of politics is felt, and its effect measured. The article is ad- i dressed to the citizens of New York, and is ae ; follows : • Twenty years ago, when the debt of the United States was only ¥1.91 per capita, the j Government borrowed, with some difficulty. : $1,500,000 at 12 ]>er cent, interest. Last vear. i though the debt of the United States 1 was $40.42 per capita, in a single day ?li)4,- 000,000 was offered to the Government at 4 rpr cent., when it needed and accepted onl-121,000,000. Under the latest Democratic aw ihinistration the public debt was more than | ioubled during four years of peace, and Unite- i I States 6 per cents, sold at 1*6 in December, i i860. Within the last four years the public | dr;bt has been reduced ¥lHJ,t*45,lH'2, or nearly | six times the entire debt in 1856. and United States 4-per-cent. bonds have sold at llO!^'. I Yet, notwithstanding this marvelous change for the better, some partisans insist that a | ^change" is necessary, and that another ! Democratic administration jboniil now be in- | trusted with power. I SHALL THERE BE A C1IANOE ? A transfer of power from the partv which ; has so completely restored the public credit to j the party by wliich it was left so completely wrecked would naturally cause serious alarm. I The public credit has become so linked with all | financial, commercial, and industrial interests that it cannot be impaired or seriously threat- | enod without the gravest consequences. The : time has long passed -if, indeed, it ever exist­ ed--when only a few wealthy men would have ! suffered from a blow at the public credit The ' " bloated bondholder " has become the average 1 American voter. A great number of persons i are uosv affected directly, and a much greater ; number indirectly, but" personally, l»y every ; rise and fall in the value of Government securi- ! ties, while any considerable change would ' affect every branch of industry and trade, and ' nearly every lender or borrower, laborer or j employer, in the whole land. | WnO HOLD OUR BONDS. I Chocks have just been sent to 58,000 persons j for quarterly interest on registered 4 per cents, j aloue. The coupon bonds are still mere widely j distributed, so that at least 200,000 nersons are j probably affected directly as holders of bonds. • But the national banks " hold in Government ' bonds over y400,000,0(J0, or nearly nine-tenths of ; the capital represented by their share*, which : are owned by 208.000 stockholders, and of these 105,000 own not more than ten shares . each, and 182,000, or nearly nine-tenths, own not more than fifty shares'each. The S ate ; banks have about.'#7,7M, 000 invested in the I same way, and these probably represent at least . 50,000 stockholders. The loan and trust com­ panies, representing a large but unknown num­ ber of owners, have about ¥ 18.0(H),000 invested j in United States bonds, or 85 jit-r cent, of their entire capital. Tho life insurance companies ! have about £42.000,000 invented in Government ! bonds, and they represent the savings of nearly j 600,000 policy-holders. The lire and marine ! and casualty insurance com]nnb's represent a | still larger but unknown number of policy- j holders, and those doing bnsine.-« in New York ; alone have over $6H,000,(K)0 invested in United States bonds, out of about -f Ki5.00ii.000 of as­ sets in this country. The savings hanks rep- j resent 2.20^.707 depositors, an 1 hold 4156,415,- ! 159 in United States bonds. In all, not loss I than 4,000,OIK) jiersons are thus interested, either personally or thr.mgh corporations, as • owpers of bonds, and would be directly affected by a decline in the public < reriit. THJ? EFFECT OF A DEC'LINK. The disastrous effects of a se-rious decline would be far more extensive. Uy the corpora­ tions mentioned, about 52,000,000.000 are now loaned for the support of various branches of trade and industry, viz : Uv national banks, $1,000,000,000 : by State banks, ;200,000,000 ; i by savings Junks. it,420.(KM),000 ; by loan and trust companies, f'lin,* 100,000 : by lite insurance > companies, $2DO.0O0,()O0 ; and by tire and ma- 1 rine insnranc.' companies, doing business in j New York. %3'1,000,000. Shrinkage of public ! credit would involve a shrinkage of the assets | of these corporations, and a eoiresjHinding, and i possibly sudden and sweeping, contraction of ' their loans. To merchants in their stores, to manufacturers in their faetories, to workmen ! in their shops, and mills, and mill's, the con- sequenccs would be not le.-n disastrous than to : the reluctant capitalists or lenders. Never yet ; has this country seen a tinancial revulsion'as j terrible and as Var-reaching in its consequences i as would now result from a collapse of that | splendid public credit which wise legislation and faithful administration have for twelve : veara been building up :md fortifying. NO CAJLAJUTT BOCOHT. j There is a reasonable reluctance to believe i that nnv party would deliberately bring such a I calamity upon the country. If the consequences I were not overlooked or misunderstood, no party : would. The danger is not that this thing will ! be deliberately done. When a Captain wrecks : his ship by want of knowledge, defective charts, inattention, or bad judgment, he may have had I no intention to imperil his life and Uio lives of all on board, liut the Democratic party has i been exposing tlie public credit to peril year ; after year, ever since the war. until conservative men who do not question its honesty of purpose upon this platform, Gen. Hancock had recently congratulated upon his supposed election as a "glorious result." OEN. HANCOCK DOES NOT UNDERSTAND. Perhaps Gen. Hancock does not understand that an issue of #700,000.000 more legal ten­ ders to retire the bonds which become redeem­ able next year would be a double violation of repeated pledges of tlie United States. The Government has pledged itself not to issue more legal tenders, and to pav its bonds in gold. Perhaps he does not understand that such a new issue, for such a purpose, would cause the United States notes to fall greatly in valne, so that public creditors would be forced to receive for their bonds far less than the valne promised. But, if he does not. what safety ean there be in trusting the executive power to him ? It seems hard to believe that a great party can consider such a measure either honest or wise, but tne same men who believed that snch a step would be neither dishonest nor fatal in 1868 may, as easily, and with as much sincerity, believe that it would not be dishonest nor >atal now. When the Democratic party, in spite of ail lie- publican efforts, defeated every plan of refund­ ing last winter, in what other way did it intend to deal with tlie bonds that became redeemable next year ? In Congress, as in Maine, Demo­ crats who knew that payment of I studs with greenbacks would be ruinous and dishonorable, THE BUSINESS OUTLOOK HOPEFTTL. We have entered uj>ou a period of hopeful activity in commerce and industry. Trade mul­ tiplies, manufacturers start forward with vigor, labor rejoices in fair wages and full employ­ ment, Yet we have but just emerged from a long period of disaster, in which the resources of all were greatly strained and the reserves of capital exhausted. A year or two of rebuild­ ing. restoration, and large outlays for the ad­ justment of business to new needs, becamc necessary after a prolonged prostration. There lias not been time, as yet, for business and in­ dustry in their various branches to get fnlly klux, and the little segment in the North that is called the Ii^mncrstic party."' j In reply, I have to advise you that, while I ! do not remember the precise language, I pre- > mime the reporter correctly stated, m a con- I densed way, the idea of what I said. I no I doubt spoke of yon as the leading representa- I tive of the Democratic party in the South, and j referred to the Kuklnx klan as the representa­ tive of barbarous agencies bv which Democrats have subverted the civil and political rights of I the Ik-publicans of the South. I do not con- j nect you personally with the Kuklux Klan ; in- i deed, I knew that yon had, in one or two in- , stances, resisted and defeated its worst im- ! pnlses. I appreciate the sense and honor which ! makes yon shrink from being named in con- | nection with it. Still, you and your associates, I leading men in the South, now "enjoy tlie bene-mto condition for profitable work; much less i In, „ , . , , - - , has there been time for the accumulation of ! FLT* OF P°1i,1cr1 P°wer derived from the atroci- new reserves. Business interests are not pre­ pared to bearjanotlier period of straightened dis­ aster. They have just begun to thrive. A re­ action now. like » relapse of fever, would be more dangerous than the original disorder. In 1830, after one year of partial recovery from the comparatively brief prostration of 1837. the country suffered such a relapse, and the ter­ rible consequences will not be forgotten. The business of this country is not in the condition to endure the enormous strain, the grave anxi­ ety, and the prolonged uncertainty of a com­ plete change of the financial policy." THE FEAR OF DISASTROUS CHANOKS would prostrate the public credit almost as much as the changes themselves. Even though ties of the Kuklux Klan, in which phrase I in­ clude nil the numerous aliases by which it hae from time to time been known' in the South. Your power in the Southern States rests npon actual crimes of every grade in the code of crimes, from murder to the meanest form of ballot-box stuffing, committed by the Kuklux Klan and its kindred associates, and, as you know, some of the worst of them committed since 1877. when yon and they gave the most solemn assurances of protection to the freed- men of the South. These crimes are all aimed at the civil and political rights of Republicans in the South, and, as I believe, but for these agencies, tlie very State von represent, as well as many other States in the South, would be v * Vi | .JJFX'.vll 1 and inarched back to the train, giving ; : three more rousing cheers as they left. October Ejections of the Put. _ Whenever the October States have \ been carried decisively by one party, \ that party has chosen the President November. There ia no exception this ride. More than this, since the Republican party was founded no im­ portant October State has reversed its if verdict in November. The Democratic pretense to the contrary is not support- f ,! \ ed by facts, as a careful reference to the / i election retains will show. In October, 1856, the Democrats carried Indiana and ̂ , r«v Pennsylvania l>y 5,872 and major- a. ity respectively, but the • Republican#? had 19,000 majority in Ohio. Buchanan . ,> I?/- was elected, and carried both the Dem- ' ocratie October States by largely-in- :,f creased majorities, while Fremont held Ohio by 16,623 majority, In October, I860, the Republicans carried Ohio, Indiana and Pennsylvania, and the election of Lincoln was con­ ceded from that moment, snd prepare for the sake of party success, joined with Dem- i ', "VJc "'wnipuuea sboul ocrats and Greenback men who propose that ! I1 - ""« !«e ^mocratic party, still uuiui an im* iiiaiiui> r.vOil TnOUlTll . i ** * * w v --? r t none of the miwiHe nteps c >nt*rnplatod ahouid f *K>th thf> Senate tuid House by j tions for secession began in the Demo- n.. u- 1 • R4 imbtioan8. But for theae crime* the boast . • « . n • m* . .5:* - • .1.1-- propose course. Who ean say that the same men would not sacrifice conviction to partisan expediency j after the election? Who can say that this alii- ] a nee would not destroy the public credit, stop specie payments, and plunge the country into incalculable disasters by a new issne of $700,- 000.000 in legal-tender notes V THE TAXATION OF BONDS. Who can tell whether bills now pending, which provide for taxation of United States bonds, would be passed if the Democratic party would gain the power V True, that party pledges a " strict maintenance of the public faith,"' but did it moan to violate the public large proportion of the people would foil-them, and would act upon that fear. Creditors and investors abroad would fear tnem. and would act without delay. Men would make haste to get out of trouble liel'ore the anticipated blow should fall, and the panic to escape from supposed peril often results in greater loss or lil'e than the dreadful catastrophe. We have to face tlie fact that almost every great financial interest would be threatened l.y Democratic success. If the Republicans. Itnt for these crimes the boast attributed to you that the 138 solid Southern votes would be cast for the Democratic ticket j would be but idle vaporing : but now we feel j that it is a sober truth. While I have no rea- , son to believe that yon or your Northern asso- < ciates personally participated in the offenses I ! have named, yet. while you and they enjoy ! the fniits of those crimes, you may in | logic and morals be classed as I classed t yon, as joint copartners with the Kuklux | Klan iu the policy which thus far has been cratie South. The returns in October and November compare as follows : Jfe-. Mar-:; M *«yv. v fef.'eo. 'JSr., m Pennsylvania * 32,164 „» K9,159 Ohio ...12,»0tt ; 44,378 Indiana 9.75J 23,524 In October, 1864, Pennsylvania had no election for State officers, Curtin having been chosen Governor the pre­ vious year. But the Republicans car- do irreparable and incalculable injury. holders by tlie th msand, distrusting the party by which payment of bonds in depreciated pa- per has been urged for years, might make haste faith in 18(58? Its national platform then pro- \ to realize. But these'sales would prostrate b l o w s h o u l d n e v e r c o m e , t h e m e r e t h r e a t m i c h t • " V , " ; -- . , T . - , • -...i .i.i. ! successful in seizing the political power m the ! ned Oluo and Iudiuna by large majori- iSrtll^h n li/l t>-l> i ,-»l > if w, I. ,-vn.ul Kn A A • . 1. . il. * /\ .i. .t. J %T V iL. ' j (vised "equal taxation of every species of property according to its real value, including Government bonds." If the Democratic partv | did not then think this an act of bad faith j --and we nm<t assume that it did n t-- I there is no greater reason to think it an act of j bad faith now. flen. Hancock gave his i unreserved approval to tlie de clarations of ' 1868. One year later, in Ohio, his parly pro- j iH>sed in its platform "to pay no interest on ! United States bouds until they are taxed."1 and declared that "if the claim' for payment in gold should be persisted in, it would force upou the people the question of repudiation." Sim­ ilar purposes were avowed by that party in 1870, in Ohio and Indiana, and lliev have never beeu retracted If Gen. Hancock" now thinks i excessive caution, and by others that taxation of bonds would not be a " strict l ,\Vho ean fail to see that the mere | maintenance of public faith," he l<as changed j his mind since 1808, and of that change he hps | given no evidence. I JM WE WANT INFLATION V - Who can tell how soon, if the Democratic ' party should succeed, the Resumption act ! would be repealed and the paper currency iu- ' fluted? Solemn pledges of public faith stand i in tho way. Hut the Democratic party has at j no time regarded these as binding pledges, and credit scarcely less than the dishonest measure feared. Ranks, savings banks, and insurance companies, apprehending th.t their assets might melt away beyond t'le limit of safety by a fall in ixuids, would make haste to sell. 'But the selling would soon depress the price so that surplus reserves would vanish. Bank­ ruptcy for a few institutions might involve bankruptcy for many, and that would mean loss of their savings for millions of people. It cannot be expected that the national banks would wait for the actual spoliation which Democrats have tlireatcned. Not a few would haste to wind up as na­ tional banks, and to get their bonds safely sold. TiOans would be hastily curtailed, by some iu of necessity, re apprehension South and which it is hoped, by the aid of j smali segment of tlie Democratic party in the ! North, may be extended to all departments Of j the Government. It is iu this sense that I ; spoke of you, the Kuklux Klan and Northern j Democratic party. Permit me, in conclusion, j while frankly answering your question, to say J the most fatal policy lor the South would be j by such agencies as I have mentioned to secure I again political ascendency in this country, for I i assure you t:.nt the manliood and independence i of tho North will certainly continue the stmg- j gle until every Republican in the South shall ! 1 have free and unrestricted enjoyment of equal j civil and political privileges, including a fair j | vote, a fail' count, free speech and a free press, I ; and the sgitation made necessary to secure j ; such result may greatly affect injuriously the I interests of the people of tho South. Very I ' respectfully, your obedient servant, j ! JOHN SHKBMAN. 1 <'HABLoTTEKVlI.I.Ii, Ya., Oct. 1. 1880. Sin : Your letter has been received, and, as yon do not disclaim the language to which I called your attention, I have only to say that iu using it you uttered what was absolutely false, and what you knew to be false. My ad- Public credit means what the people think j dress will be Columbia, S. ('. 1 am yonr obe- of injustice to this vast interest would disorder trade and industry iu even- department V Long Ixsfore a Democratic administration could begin to do good or evil, the evil effects of a change would be felt. about the honesty and solvency of their Govern­ ment. What the Government really can do and will do has little effect, if the people have a tixed belief about the matter. The fact can- it is not more likely to regard t:, m now than it t not be denied that in the financial andcounner was one year ago. In tebruary, 1879, when i rial world the Democratic party is profoundly specie payments had continued nearly two months, 106 Democrats in the House voted for a rejK'al of the Resumption act, and only 27 against it. The spirit of the party was even mure decided than in November, 1877, eleven months before resumption, when 104 Democrats voted for the repeal of the act and 28 against it. In tho fall elections or | 1878 the Democratic party throughout U.® | West and South and iu l'euns\ivaiiia j denounced resumption as a great wrong i and an utter impossibility, less than three | months before specie pa\*meuts began. In i 1879, wherever elections were held in those 1 States, that party insisted that resumption I must fail and would work terrible injustice. ! Only one year ago it supported for Governor, ! with the largest vote ever given to any Detno- I cratic candidate at a StMf election in Ohio, the ' most zealous and extremft advocate of intlatiou i ill that State. It is now supporting for Gov- i ernor the most extreme inflationist m its ranks in ! Indiana. 'J liese and other leaders of like char- 1 actor have made no pretense of a change of j purpose. Nor is it possible that a great jwirty, | composed of millions of voters, has suddenly chauged honest beliefs and fixed principles, to 1 which it has adhered through years of contro- | versy. It is true that the Democratic party 1 promises "honest money," but that party will i hardly say that it desired dishonest money dur- i ing all tlie years in which it opposed resuinp- j lion and demanded inflation. It must be in­ ferred that the phrase "honest money" does not mean to Democrat* what it means to Re- j publicans. Nearly four-flfths of the Demo- j cratic party, according to its representation in | CougresH, earnestly oppose resumption, even | since siH'cie payments Is-gan, beccuse it has been ; trained to believe that resumption is mischiev­ ous, and honestly desires inflation, because it j has been taught ihat " more money" is needed : "to emancipate the people from the tyranny of | money kings." These notions have not been j eradicate! by a sudden change in the tactics of | a few party managers. Who can feel assured ' that they will not shape legislation aa soon as I the Democratic party has controly I distrusted. It has done nothing for years to remove distrust, but viry much to increase it. i "PILE fact is noted that the Democratic party is I largely controlled by the South. But the South has but a small part in the investments, the | commerce or the industries, which a change of j policy would affect. It is essentially agricnlt- i ural. It employs fi.5 i>er cent, of the maim- lacturing capital of the country, only 5.3 per | cent, of the money loaned by banks, only 7 per | eont. of the tonnage used in domestic corn- j nieree, and only 7.4 per cent, of the freight cars Used on railroads. Of the holders of United States bonds, probably much le*s than one- tenth are iu the Southern States. THK BEST BANKINO SYSTEM. Who can tell how soon the best bulking sys­ tem the country has yet seen would be destroyed I NO OoVI.UNMLSr IIONDS l.N THE NOl'TH. None of the bum and trust companies are lo- • csted there. Out of 2'IH.(W)0 shmehoMers io | national banks, less than '20,000 aw- in all tlie i Si des formerly slnveholding. and only (S4.353 depositors in savings banks out of 2.20*1.000 in the whole country, or less than 3 p> r cent. In short, the South bus but nn insignificant share j in the immense and complicated system of eom- j mere*1, manufactures, investments, savings, and . vast credit, which rests npon the public credit j as a foundation. This is not suggested as a re­ proach. but it prompts the question whether | any business firm would turn over the manage- j ment and control of its affairs to the partner I having the smallest interest in the con -cm V If I the United States intrusts the defense and j maintenance of the public credit to that section | which has least share or interest in it, or in the j diversified industries and commerce which de- j pend upou it, there will be real reason for ap- ! prehension. I THE OHIOIN OK THE ITlil-lC DEBT. | We cannot forget the origin of the public j debt. The people of the ouee rebellions States I do not forget that the debt was created in sup- i pressing the reliellion. Even in the payment of debts contracted by themselves, and for their own advantage, Southern communities have not Ix-eii conspicuous for their fidelity. Can it be expected that they will be more eager and scru­ pulous to pav, according to the letter and in any emergency, obligations created in putting down a rebellion which they made and sus­ tained ? The men who expect such a thing will not l>e thought sagacious bv the civilized world. ilient servant, WADK HAMPTON. To (he Hon. John Sherman. , TBKASEHY DEPARTMENT,) . WASHINGTON. Oct. 18, 1880. ) To the flon. Wade Hampton, Columbia, N. C.: I have to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 1st inst., handed me, unopened, by Mr. McKimley. a few minutes ago. after my return from the West. I had this morning road what purported to be an extract of a speech made by you, published in the Charles­ ton .Versanti Courier, and ujx>n your general reputation as a gentleman had denied that you bad made such a speech, or written such a letter as is attributed to yon in that paper. What I stated to you in my letter of Sept. 21 I ln lieve to be true, notwithstanding your denial, and it can lie shown to be true by the public records, and as a matter of history. As you had long before your letter was delivered to me seen proper to make a public statement of your views of the correspondence, I will give it to the press without note or comment, and let the public decide between ns. Vory respectfully, JOHN SUKUMAN. The serenade to Secretary Sherman this evening resulted in a grand demon­ stration. In response to speeches, Mr. Sherman made oue of the most im­ pressive and eloquent addresses of his life. He was evidently fired by the in­ solent attack of Wade Hampton, and when lie alluded to the South he threw great vehemence into his remarks. if the Democratic party should succeed? There | Nay, more ; a transfer of ail care of the public is higher than any other tower yet con- ' havt' become profoundly apprehensive that its m- i„ • v.*.,.- v^.-u success would cause great financial, commercial structed. Trinity steeple, m New \oik , anA inHnutpinl At time* it* chart* I City, which seems so imposing with its on the ground were within an hour after j height of 284 feet, shrinks into insigniti- the fire removed, and in one instance, , ounce in comparison with the lofty spire that of the Lypers Bros., grocers, a ^ which is intended to be the crowning building was rented und the new placc J glory of Penn Square. The highest prepared for immediate business. A Lost Note. In 1740, a director of the Bank of England lost a £30,000 bank note, which he was persuaded had fallen from the •cliimney-piece of his room into the fire. Tlie bank directors gave the loser a •second bill, upon his agreement to re­ store the first bill should it ever lx; found, or pay the money if presented by any stranger. "About thirty years af­ terward, " says Mr. Francis, " the director having been long dead, and liis hcir» in possession of his fortune, an unkuowu person presented the lost bill at the bank and demanded payment. It was in vain that they r-- * 1 ' son the transact^ was annulled ; he -would not listen to it. He maintained that it had come to him from abroad, and insisted upon imme­ diate payment. The note to bearer, and the £30, him. The heirs of the director would not listen to any demands of restitution, 4lnd the bank was obliged to sustain the loss. It was discovered afterward that an architect, having purchased the di­ rector's house, had taken it down in order to build another upon the same spot, had found the note in the crevice -of the chimney, and made his discovery «n engine for robbing the bank." Brother Gardner's Philosophy. "Iam no use deny in' de fack," said Brother Gardner, after a long silence, " dat de razor am de black man's favor­ ite weepin'. Up to de time dis club was organized, ebery cull'd man in dis town was in de habit of walkin' round wid a razor on his ptissen, but dat custom am I towers which have yet lieen constructed are thoae of the Cologne Cathedral, which I have at present a height of 524 feet 11 ] inches, or 10 feet 1 inch below Mr. I Penn's proposed hat. As, however, the i Cologne towers are still unfinished, and ; aim at an ultimate altitude of 576 feet 9 inches, the Penn Square Tower- may never enjoy the distinction of being the highest in tlie world. The following arc the heights of some of the chief lofty buildings: Tower of St. Nicholas, at Hamburg. 473 feet 1 inch; cupola of St. Peter s, Rome, 469 feet 2 inches; Ca­ thedral spire at Strasburg, 465 feet 11 inches; pyramid of Cheops, 449 feet 5 iuohes; tower of St. Stephen's, A ienna. TJ- T f*,ayTr- " was 443 feet 10 inches: tower of St. Martin's, they ̂ mentioned to this per- V ,\ . f\alw>,li.l .sackn by which that bill , LftlJ<W'1^ n ̂ 1 , cl • 1 • wWn,,hl not listen to it 1 sl'ire ftt *rul,m"' 1 • T l ^m ! Cathedral at Antwerp, 401 feet 10 inches; ^ ' Cathedral at Florence, 390 feet 5 inches; t ; St. l'linlx London. Mi fc-t 1 to*; 000 were' nai l ' tdes of Cologne Cathedral, 360 feet 3 '/Jiv^t^r inches; Cathedral tower at Madgebnrg, and industrial disasters. At times its charts have been bad ; it has insisted UIKWI most per­ nicious theories. At times its chosen leaders have erred through incompetence or lack of practical knowledge. At times many of its representatives have seemed ready to expose the public credit and the business of the coun­ try t> the gr ivest dangers for the sake of tem­ porary success in some election. Since 1M0 the course of that party has never tended to inspire confidence in its capacity or fitness for financial management, as its friends have perceived with keen regret THE DEMOCBATIC BECOBD. Who could tell what the Democratic party, if in power, would do with regard to the pay­ ment of the public debt or the interest thereon ? Not a few members of that partv insist that the principal or interest or both shall be paid only in pajjer. Bills to that end are now pending, and have been pushed at every session of Con­ gress for years. My many, jx-rhaps, such bills may be proposed in ignorance of the fact that an increased issue of legal-tender notes would cause a decline in their value. But the legal tender was worth less than 70 cents on the dol­ lar in 18fW, when nearly every prominent Dem­ ocrat was carried away with the idea that a pro­ posal t<> pay the 5-20* bonds in paper ana to tax all bonds would redder the party irresistible in tlie approaching election. These pro­ posals the party then embodied in it* national platform. Oen. Hancock, who narrowly missed the Presidential nom­ ination on that declaration of principles and purposes, gave it his unqualified approval. It was zealously supported by every one of the prominent leaders who are now asking nublic support for that party on the ground that it promises this vear "a strict maintenance of the ni I public faith."' But can it l>e supposed that the td - party intended to violate the public faith iu i 1868 V It must be presumed that the Demo- • cratic party and Oen. Hancock thought that the ' pavment of bonds in greenbacks would be both : honest and wise. Nothing has been done or said by the Democratic party, or by Gen. Han- : cock himself, to show that the counsel deemed i honest and wise in 1868 is now deemed uuwise or dishonest. Not a thing has been done or I aaid to show that the Democratic party or Gen. ! Hancock would not consider such payment in ; 1881 "a strict maintenance of the public faith.' i THE DANGEH IS SEAR AND KF.AL. : Within one year, bouds amounting to $697,- 350,600 become payable or redeemable. Every effort to meet then! by refunding lias 1 feated by the Democratic majority in CongresB, in spite of earnest appeals by the Secretary of the Treasury. Bills for the payment of a'l the 339 feet 11 inches; tower of tho new Votive Church at Vienna, 314 feet 11 iuclies; tower of the Rathhaus at Berlin, 288 feet 8 inches; and the towers Notre Dame at Paris, 232 feet 11 inches. --Philadclph ia Pr< ss. A CANADIAN clergyman maintained in the Presbyterian Couucil that there was a difference between good whisky and bad whisky, and that to include both in the same indiscriminate condemnation was not only unjust but illogical. THE Emory City (British Columbia) Sentinel savs it is read in every- house in , , . that town : \>ut there are only two houses. I effort mcet them by refunding lias been de- and one of those is the ot&oe of the Sen ! hv th" n"n,™"rst,,: maiontv 111 ( omfreBe tinct newspaper. I is scarcely any other purpose iu which that par­ ty has been so nearly united as in the purpose ' to get rid of the national banks. 1 he very I name " national" is offensive to those who cling | to State-right traditions. The supposed influ- i enco of national banks is thought to be used I with great efli-ct against the Democratic.party. The ancient antagonism of the partv to a na­ tional bank, and the chronic antipathy of the I rural population to the money lenders, have i been continually inflamed by artful appeals, j The South has given to the system so little fa­ vor that less than 9 per cent of the national banks, and little more than 5 per cent of their ! deposit--, are to be foiuid iu that secti6n. | Iu nearly every Western State, and even I in Maine and * Vermont, the Democratic ' party has formallv demanded abolition j of the national-banking system. As early as j January, 1870, a resolution instructing a coin-, I mittee to report a bill to withdraw all national- t bank circulation, and to issue greenbacks iu its ! stead, received fifty-three Democratic votes iu | the House, with only one Democratic vote l against it. From that day to this there has been no evidence that the purpose of the party ! in this respect has changed, and bills to carry ; that purpose into effect are now pending, with I very-strong support. If the Democratic psriy | should ever secure the Executive a most stn-n- j nous effort to break up the national-banking | Bvsteni would undoubtedly be made. Local in- ' fluences won d powerfully aid the movement, j Democratic politicians in Southern and West- I eru States are eaKcr to get into their own hands the power to create, as of old. a host of banking I and note-issuing corporations. j COl'NTI.ESN EVII S OK THE Ol.U SYSTEM. The commercial world knows full well what I countless evils were caused by the old system | of irresponsible and heterogeneous State banks. ! It is well aware that the safety, uniformity. no 1 peculiar local elasticity of our present banking I system have contributed most powerfully to the ; commerce and the development of resources, j Conservative men would, therefore, regard an overturning of the sjstem with great apprehen­ sion, even if the transition to auy other could be effected without immediate shock ordi*turbajiee, or harm to the public credit. But it is not pos­ sible to effect the change without a shock. Bonds amounting to 4400,000,000, now held by the banks, could not be n i l sod ret'e-d witboio inflation, dishonor and disaster. They could not be thrown upon the market without preat prostration of the public credit. Vet the banks, if deprived of the advantages of circulation, could not afford to keep their capital locked up in bonds. Under a Dem­ ocratic administration, too, with a profound uncertainty as to the speedy taxation of bonds, or their payment in depreciated notes, it would [ be extremely difticutt to fiud new purchasers j for bonds. In the change of system a great contraction of loans would be inevitable. Many I banks wculd wind up their affairs and go out of j existence. Many others would be forced to cut down their loans in order to make the | change without ruinous delay. It seems almost incredible that any one should propose to throw . rodit to a party politically controlled bv and dependent upon the South will seem to all the world little less than a public proclamation that the people of the United States are weary of piot(k;tin<z its credit and paying its debts. E. D. MORGAN, J. J. AHTOH, HAMILTON FISH. ROBT. LENNOXJCENSEDY J. PIEKPONT MORGAN, E. P. FAIIBUI, CHAS. II. lii'ssEix. JOHN A. STEWART, J. I). YKKMII.YE, HENBY F. VAIL, BEX/. B. SHEBMAH, DAVID DOWS, WM H. MACY, SAM SLOAX. LEVI P. MORTON, GEO. BLISS, JESSE SEI.IOMAX, GEO. T. A DEE. CYRCH \V. FIELD, JOHN W. ELLIS, ISAAC SHERMAN, L N. PHELPS. HAMPTON ANSWERED. He Wmi to to Know (lie Reatra Why IBe In Clamed with tlie .Vlnr- derouN Kuklnx--Secretary Sherman Enlightens the South Carolinian Knjuyinir the Fruit* of Terrorism-- The Hetort of a Bully* [Washington Cor. Chicago Inter Ocean.] The publication of the personal corre­ spondence between Secretary Sherman and Wade Hampton this afternoon cre­ ated a profound sensation. Tlie Repub­ licans are delighted at the cool scorn with which Mr. Bherman answered the insolent bragadoeio of the Brigadier, who gives the lie and names his address, as though the Secretary would respond according to the Southern code, and re­ sort to South Carolina methods to settle a political discussion. Democrats have not the patience to talk about it. Said one of their prominent men this even­ ing : "This tomfoolery will cost us 50,- ()00 votes in the North. Would to the Lord that mule had killed Wade Hamp­ ton instead of breaking his leg." By his course Mr. Sherman lias not only proved his point but held his adversary up to the ridicule of the entire country. Following is the correspondence ia full : DOOOER'S SPRINGS, Sept. 17,1880. To the Hon. John Sherman, Secretary of the Treas­ ury : SIR : I saw a report of your speech at the conference held by the National Repnbliean Committee at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York, and you were quoted as having used the following language : "And now you are asked to surrender all yon have done into the hands of Wade Hampton and the Kuklux, and the little segment in the North that is called the ties both in October and November, the vote being as follows : Krj*. Maj». Rta. Maj*.. Oct., *04. .Vm\, Ohio 28,619 .W.58B; Indiana a»,lH» , • This October majority in Ohio was exclusive of a considerable soldier vote, _ which swelled the Republican majority» §1 to huge proportions. .!•- In 1868 the returns of the October i and Novemlier elections were: 1 J>1>. Jltti*. /Up. M«j*. • ' <t, K, •«*. jVor., '6»f. - Pennsylvania «,C77 28,8DK Ohio I'.axi 41,42* Indinna 961 9,57'i Tho Republicans carded all the Octo­ ber States in 1872, though Hendricks; (Democratic candidate for Ciovernor) pulled through alone in Indiana by a majority of 1,148, the rest of tlie Re­ publican ticket being elected and a Re- (publican Legislature chosen. Selioll, ' Republican candidate for Clerk of the I Supreme Court, had 2,503 majority. [ The comparative vote was: » ;| j Uep. UNI/K. Btp. majo. « , " . ik-U '72, • a»r., Ti Pennsylvania 40,44.1 133,54j> I Ohio ..14.1SU S7,53t j Indiana ...(MO 1,00« 22,515 - In October, 1876, Indiana went Dem­ ocratic and Ohio Republican, both by [ small majorities, aud the Presidential ,r.. j election which followed was the closest^*7' . • in the history of the country. Williams^ (Dem.) majority for Governor in Indiam«tf ;; J was 5,084, and Tilden's majority foe',} 1 > President 5,515. Barnes' (U;*i>.) ma-j,^ ^ jority for Secretary of Stat*1 in Ohio was - 6,636 and Hayes' majority for President jl 7,516. The October elections being close and the general result in doubt,-f « •the parties held their strength remark- , ^ ably well m the two States, aud them " f. ̂ was less variance between the Octobei* - ^ and November elections than ever be- . fore. • The above returns, viewed in anothei*- aspect, show that Ohio never but oncrt^.--^,* before gave so large a majority in Octo-« 4 ber for a Republican canditade as thist'^ time; and tne aggregate Republican , majorities in Indiana in Presidential years since 1864 do not equal that givei|^~W*t if or Porter last Tuesday. The majorities since 1864 have been as follows : -ilv {{.'publican Majoritit*. 1870 188U. Ohio. ...17,383 .^. «-*.,• ,i 4,150 6,616 21,000 Imiiami. set TM 7,141 A'Happy Speech by the Next President. The Business Men's Club of Indian­ apolis, to the number of about 400, paid Gen. Garfield a visit *at his Mentor home. The club is composed of the most prominent bankers, merchants, and other business men of the capital of Indiana. Their uniforms are linen dust­ ers and three-cornered straw hats, the costume being a " take-off" on the Dem­ ocratic Jefferson Club of Indianapolis. The Indiana visitors signalized their arrival at Mentor by firing a cannon which they had brought with them on a baggage-car. Having alighted and formed into line under the leadership of tlieir Captain, M. M. McLain, Esq., and headed by their band, the column moved up the long lane leading to the General's house. They formed in front of the resi­ dence, and, when Gen. Garfield appeared upon the piazza, three rounds of ring­ ing chr era went up, and Capt. McLain stepped forward and made a speech, de­ tailing the history of the club, its part in the campaign, and eulogistic of the wise financial policy of the Republican administration. Three cheers were given for Gen. Garfield when Capt. McLain concluded, to which the General re­ sponded as follows: (tKNTijEMKN : You have coiue as liearers of dispatches, so yonr Chairman tells inc. and 1 am glad to hear the news yon bring, and ex­ ceedingly glad to see the briugers of the new*. Your uniforms, the name of your club, the place from which you come, are full of Mig- > gestions. You recollect the verses that weiv often quoted about the old Continents! M>K1 <TK the old three-cornered hat and the breeches, . and all that were so queer. Your costume brings back to our memory the days of the Oontincn- .als of 177G. whose principles I hope vou rep­ resent. You are called tlie Lincoln Club, and Lincoln was himself a revival, a restoration of , the dayo of '76 and their doctiines. The great j Proclamation of Emancipation which he ( penned was the second Declaration of j tiulei>eiidonce, broader, fuller -the New | Testament of human liberty; and then you come from Indiana, Hupix>si-d to be a western State, and yet m it- traditions older than Ohio. | Mort than 100 vears ago a gallant ^ irgi'iiun a _ . . , ivent far up into your wilderness, captured two Jiave a direct interest and signitieauee or three forts, took down the British f ag, and ! for everybody connected with life assur- reared the Stars and Stripes. \incennes and j auce jn the preparation of his well- 1 'aholda and a post n,'e j known English mortality table, Dr. Farr thnf enilntv \ our native State was one oi uie i e» . lii'lt fruitsof that splendid righting power which , paid considerable attention to the que*, gave the whole West to the United States; and tion of the amount of siekues« prevailing, now these represi tstives of Indiana come, rep- I and finally propouutled the hypothesis-- resenting the Involution iu y< ur hats. rt p«N i recoiriiized as a law--that the UUIU- scnting Abraham Lineoln in your This being the experience of parties in the October States, it is as certain aa any future event in politics ean be (1) that Indiana and Ohio will go Republi­ can in Novemt>er, (2) tl?at they will give increased majorities, and (8) that the Presidential candidate who receives their electoral votes will be inaugurated the 4th of March next.--Chicago Tribune. Had a Shock. " Yes," Mr. Messenger replied, in an­ swer to tlie young lady's remark, " he was rather foud of bathiug, very fond of it, in fact, but he received a terrible - _ shock a few summers ago while in the water, aud he has never recovered from it." " My," she exclaimed, "did a snake bite liim ? Oh, dreadful!" " No," Mr. Messenger said, "it wasn't that." "Did - he come near drowning, then ? " she wanted to know. "No," he said, "it wasn't that exactly, but, just as he waa about ready to come out of the river, he saw a tramp going up over the hill, about a quarter of a mile away, with his hat, liis pockethook, his vest, his watch, his handkerchief, his stock­ ings, liis cigar ease, his shoes, his gloves, his collar, his necktie, his shirt- stud aud collar-buttons, his s-s-suspend- ers, his cane, and well, in fact, his ,, , trousers. Ami there was a Sunday-*- school picnic only half a mile down the* river, gradually coming nearer, and he-,„ , A lounged around among the willows all. ! that day, and walked home alone iu tlie > starlight. And the fact was. he had * * never t>een able to eujoy a swim very much »iuce that time."--Burlington. Haifk- Eye. Interesting Statistical ltalactUMKW Apart from their value to the success­ ful operation of "friendly societies," as they are called, in England, some statistical laws recently discovered by Dr. Farr, of the office of the Register of births, marriages and deaths, and by Mr. A. G. Finalison, the Government Actuary, > representing the victory both of the and of ».in«'olu in the news you bring. I could not be an American and fail to welcome your costumes, your badges, your news, and your­ selves. Mafiv Indiana men were my comrades in the Javs of the war. I remember a regiment of tlieni that was under my command near Cor­ inth, when it seemed necessary for the defense of our forces to cut down a little piece of tiui- badges^ and | ^4'ui^d as a law-that the s Revolution i "er °t persons constantly sick m m any given town is equal to twice the annual , mortality. The maiu feature of Mr. '>'*m Finaljkon's inquiry took the shape oil discriminating between light aud heavy^ lalxir, with or without exposure to th«|2 weather, respectively. Tlie results nrny4 be summed up in a few words. Tin isms engaged in light lalior, while lew habit* 4. ber--seventy-live acres. We unboxed from my | to sickness, experience, wheu sick, at- brigade sbo'ut 4.IMM) new axes, aud the Fifty- j trtcks of greater duration, and die in tirst regiment of Indian* volunteers chopped ; down more it was povsible _ _ It appears that in the great political forest from light labor. --London paper. sibie could fall in a forest in a week. 1 weak, probably, systi mauCally MM